acknowledgments

Writing a book about technology in flux was new for us. Each day of writing started with us reading the new articles, opinion pieces, and capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Early plans had to be scrapped or revised. New ideas presented themselves for later chapters only after we’d written earlier chapters and had access to the latest LLM features. We thank the entire Manning Publications team for their agility and help throughout the process.

In particular, we thank our development editor, Rebecca Johnson, for her expertise, wisdom, and support. Rebecca provided insightful feedback, constructive criticism, and creative suggestions that have greatly improved the quality and clarity of our work.

Rebecca was supportive and encouraging, and she helped us manage book timelines and our busy schedules. Thank you, Rebecca—you went above and beyond for us.

We also thank our technical editor, Peter Morgan, who offered valuable contributions to the quality of the book. Peter Morgan is the founder of the AI consulting company Deep Learning Partnership based in London. He has been working in AI for the past 10 years and before that spent 10 years as a solutions architect for companies such as Cisco Systems and IBM. Peter has written several reports, papers, and book chapters on AI, physics, and quantum computing.

We thank Naaz Sibia for her help with the book exercises.